Confederación de Los Verdes
The Confederation of Greens ( Spanish Confederación de Los Verdes ) is an alliance of Spanish political parties founded in 1984 . It was a founding member of the European Green Party , but was expelled from it in May 2012.
history
The Spanish Greens ( Los Verdes ) were founded in 1984 after a group of Spanish environmentalists had published the “Manifesto of Tenerife ” the year before, on the initiative of German activist Petra Kelly , in which they called for a change in social and ecological policy and their distrust the already existing parties expressed. In 1988 the party became a member of the "European Green Alliance", later the European Green Party .
After the founding of various competing small left-wing ecological parties, the party decided at a congress in Granada in 1995 to transform it into a confederation of regional individual parties . However, this confederation only included a part of the Spanish parties that describe themselves as "green". There are also u. a. the 1994 founded Los Verdes-Grupo Verde ("The Greens-Green Group") and the Catalan Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds ("Initiative for Catalonia Greens"), which, however, cooperated with the Confederación and since 2007 also a member of the European Green Party is.
For a long time there were merger efforts between the Confederación and the Grupo Verde to end the fragmentation of the green spectrum of parties in Spain. However, the efforts of the Grupo Verde to run for the European elections in Spain in 2009 with a common list failed. At the end of 2010, Equo was finally founded, an alliance of green parties that won a seat in the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2011 and was also accepted into the European Green Party. 13 of the 16 member parties of the Confederation occurred before the elections to Equo over, so that the Confederation only has three member parties: Els Verds del País Valencià, Els Verds-Opció Verda and Los Verdes de Madrid. While Equo pursues a course of political independence, the rest of the Confederación has been trying to establish closer ties with the post-communist Izquierda Unida since early 2012 . In May 2012, the Congress of the European Green Party decided to exclude the Confederación , as it was only an “empty structure” and no longer represented the Spanish green spectrum. This exclusion had been requested by the former member parties of the Confederación who had converted to Equo .
Election results
The strong fragmentation of the green spectrum, as well as the Spanish electoral system , which favors large parties and thus makes it difficult to establish new small parties, prevented the Confederación from having any significant electoral success . This led to a change in strategy in the organization, which no longer competes independently for most elections, but in regional lists, for example with the social democratic PSOE or the post-communist Izquierda Unida . However, this strategy was controversial and led to further party splits.
One of the successes of the Confederación was the entry into the Spanish parliament with two members in the 2004-2008 electoral period and in the European Parliament with one member in the 2004-2009 period, each in a list with the PSOE. In the European elections in Spain in 2009 , the Confederación joined an electoral alliance with various left-regionalist parties, but only got fourth place on the list. The electoral alliance was able to win a seat, which should rotate according to an agreement between the member parties. At the end of the 2009–2014 legislative period, Pura Peris, a member of the Confederación, was supposed to belong to the European Parliament for six months , but this did not materialize due to the fact that the party was split up.
The Confederación also succeeded in entering various regional parliaments through list connections ; in Andalusia she was part of the regional government until March 2008, and in the Balearic Islands until 2010. However, it has not been represented in any parliament since 2012.
Member parties
The regional member parties of the Confederación de Los Verdes are:
| region | Surname |
|---|---|
| Catalonia | Els Verds-Opció Verda |
| Madrid | Los Verdes de Madrid |
| Valencia | Els Verds del País Valencià |
Until 2011, the following member parties were also part of the Confederación :
| region | Surname |
|---|---|
| Andalusia | Los Verdes de Andalucía |
| Aragon | Los Verdes-SOS Naturaleza / Aragón |
| Asturias | Los Verdes de Asturias |
| Balearic Islands : Mallorca | Els Verds de Mallorca |
| Balearic Islands : Menorca | Els Verds de Menorca |
| Basque Country | Los Verdes de Euskadi / Berdeak |
| Extremadura | Los Verdes de Extremadura |
| Canary Islands | Los Verdes-Partido Verde Canario |
| Castile-La Mancha | Los Verdes de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Castile-Leon | Los Verdes de Castilla y León |
| Andalusia | Los Verdes de Andalucía |
| La Rioja | Los Verdes de La Rioja |
| Murcia | Los Verdes de la Region de Murcia |
| Navarre | Los Verdes de Navarra / Nafarroako Berdeak |
See also
Web links
- Official homepage of the Confederación de Los Verdes (Spanish)
- Official homepage of Los Verdes-Grupo Verde (Spanish)